Gary Sosniecki:
CLASS OF 1969
Fenton High SchoolClass of 1969
Bensenville, IL
Blackhawk Middle SchoolClass of 1965
Bensenville, IL
W. A. Johnson Elementary SchoolClass of 1963
Bensenville, IL
Gary's Story
Gary Sosniecki is the author of “The Potato Masher Murder: Death at the Hands of a Jealous Husband,” the true story of his great-grandmother’s horrific murder. Soz retired in January 2016 as a regional sales manager covering a nine-state territory for TownNews.com. He also was general manager of TownNews'â Creative Services from 2008 to 2012. He joined the company in January 2008 after a 34-year newspaper career that included owning three weekly newspapers and publishing a small daily, all in Missouri. Sosniecki, with his wife, Helen, owned the Humansville Star-Leader from 1980 to 1986, the Webster County Citizen in Seymour from 1988 to 1999 and The Vandalia Leader from 2003 to 2007. From 1999 to 2003, they were editors and publishers of The Lebanon Daily Record and vice presidents of its parent company, Lebanon Publishing Co., in Lebanon, Mo. He also has worked for The Jackson, Tenn., Sun, the Southern Illinoisan in Carbondale and the Hillsboro, Kan., Star-Journal. He is a graduate of the University of Missouri Scho...Expand for more
ol of Journalism. Sosniecki is a past president of the Missouri Press Association, the Missouri Press Service and the Ozark Press Association and, with his wife, was a vice president of the Missouri Associated Press. He is a two-time recipient of the Golden Quill award for editorial writing from the International Society of Weekly Newspaper Editors (ISWNE), and he and his wife received the organization's lifetime-achievement award, the Eugene Cervi Award, in 2003. He is serving as past president (2015-16) after three years on the ISWNE board of directors and one year each as vice president and president. The Sosnieckis were hosts of the 2015 ISWNE conference at the University of Missouri's Reynolds Journalism Institute. Sosniecki and his wife received the National Newspaper Association's Community Development Award in 1998 and its President's Award in 2007. They were inducted into the Missouri Press Association Hall of Fame in 2014. In retirement he is active in the promotion and preservation of Route 66 and in Rotary.
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